The
highlight of the month at the Detroit Film Theatre was Chan
is Missing, "a highly original comedy girded with profound
and melancholy perceptions about the cultural confusion of Chinese-Americans,"
wrote Susan Stark in The Detroit News (October 7, 1982). Stark noted
that Chan was made for $20,000 and had grossed more than $700,000.
Chan later was shown at the Maple 1-2-3.

At
the Redford Theatre on October 8-9, there was plenty of singing, dancing
and comedy as Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland starred in Ziegfield
Follies (1946). Fans of later Charlie Chaplin movies enjoyed him
with Claire Bloom in Limelight
(1952), which had evening showings on October 22-23, and a Sunday afternoon
screening on October 24. Famous theater organist Gaylord
Carter used his silent film musical talents to help Buster Keaton
recover his train The
General (1927).